This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team working in a University teaching hospital. This post will be required to cover the neonatal duties, including a separate consultant neonatal on call rota, as well as neonatal service weeks. Other duties can be adjusted according to the skills of the applicant and the flexibility of our existing consultants.

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust is a first-wave Foundation Trust that serves a population of460,000people from NHS Devon, with some specialist services such as paediatric oncology including serving an excess of 800,000. Further information on the Trust can be obtained from our website. The University of Exeter Medical School affords exciting opportunities to participate in both undergraduate teaching and research. The historic cathedral city of Exeter is situated in the middle of the South West Region with easy access to the countryside and coast of Devon and Cornwall. It is well served by rail, road and air links.

Applicants must be registered medical practitioners and either be on the Specialist Register, or be within 6 months of completion of specialist training at the date of interview; you should provide evidence of this with your application. When applying please include the contact details of 3 referees; if you are a Consultant one referee should be your current or most recent Medical Director, if you are a Locum Consultant one referee should be your Clinical Director.

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Dr David Bartle (neonatal lead and Paediatrician) on Exeter (01392) 406633, or Dr Richard Tomlinson, (Paediatric clinical lead and Consultant Paediatrician) on (01392) 403129.

The Trust is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and so we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation.

On submitting an application form you authorise the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process, should you be appointed to the post.

The Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust will contact previous employers to confirm employment history to cover a period of at least 3 years. The Trust is only able accept written references; these will be requested via email. One of your referees must be your current line manager and all references must cover the previous three years work or study history.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for job applicants with disabilities. If you let us know, when you apply, that you would like to use this scheme, we will guarantee you an interview, if you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description.

We will also make any reasonable adjustments you require to our selection process. Please let us know what you need.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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applicants with disabilities. If you let us know, when you apply, that you would like to use
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scheme, we will guarantee you an interview, if you meet all the essential criteria listed in
the
person specification section of the job description.

We will also make any reasonable adjustments you require to our selection process. Please let
us
know what you need

Our Trust is proudly committed to race equality.
To ensure our ethnic minority staff have an equal opportunity to succeed, we are offering
career development support to any ethnic minority staff.